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 HARTSHORNE

HARTSHORNE

McClellan, Nicetown, and other Army Hospitals, in and near Philadelphia. In the course of this service, a poisoned wound of his left hand, incurred while amputating a very bad limb, induced a severe illness; and this had, no doubt, a depressing influence upon his health throughout the rest of his life. He was actively concerned in the organization of the Philadelphia branch of the United States SaDitary Commission, during the war, being secretary of its executive committee.

He was successively elected vice-presi- dent and president, of the Pathological Society, and of the Ophthalmological Society of Philadelphia.

Inheriting from his father a strong constitution, with much capacity for work, he would probably have attained quite long life but for the impairment of his vital energy by the two attacks of illness which have been mentioned. After contending for eight years with chronic nephritic disease, he passed tranquilly from this life, near midsum- mer, 1SS5, aged sixty-seven. H. H.

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Hartshorne).

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Hartshorne, Henry (1823-1897).

In 1669 there came to America one Richard Hartshorne, a refugee from religious persecution, and who became one of the proprietaries with the Duke of York and William Penn. This Hartshorne was the first American ancestor of Henry, son of Dr. Joseph Hartshorne, born on March 16, 1823 in Philadelphia, his mother a daughter of Isaac Bonsall, a preacher in the Society of Friends.

When thirteen he went to Haverford College and took his B. A. in 1839 his M. D. at the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1S45, and the honorary LL. D. from there in 1884. Three years after his election as resident physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital, in 1S46, he married Mary, daughter of Jeremiah Brown of Philadelphia.

It was as teacher and writer that Dr. Hartshorne did his best work. " His broad culture and high attain- ments, his calm serenity of character, were universally recognized." " Once several members of the class gained possession of the lecture-room and smoked voluminously and rapidly as possible with long pipes, anticipating stupefaction on the part of Harts- horne, but he walked quietly to his desk, ordered all the doors and windows closed and the smoking to be continued, continuing to lecture calmly while the ringleaders gradually withdrew ill at ease and stomach."

The list given of honorable appoint- ments filled, of books written, inade- quately represent the human side of a man. How well he advocated the cause of women doctors in 1872; how keenly he was interested in the salvation spiritually and medically of Japan in the prohibition of opium, the care of the insane there, and in all missionary work. When, finally he died in Tokio, on February 10, 1897, the funeral was attended by Japanese and other foreigners, missionaries and merchants, teachers and medical students. All of science, religion and money Henry Hartshorne possessed he freely gave. Always successful, he was "honest in purpose, kind and pure in heart."

Among his appointments were: Pro- fessor of practice of medicine, Pennsyl- vania College; clinical lecturer, Phila- delphia Hospital; professor of anatomy and physiology, Philadelphia Central High School; professor of hygiene, Pennsyl- vania University; professor of organic science and Philosophy, Haverford Col- lege; president, Howland College School; fellow of the College of Physicians.

His chief writings were:

"Essentials of the Principles and Practice of Medicine," 1867.

"On Organic Physics." "Proceedings of American Philosophical Society."

Important articles in "Johnson's New Illustrated Cyclopedia " on anat- omy, philosophy, brain, breast, chest.